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1.6 Changing How Items Are Listed

From the To Do list, push the Android menu button (the vertical ellipsis in the top corner on modern Android devices) and then press “Settings”. This will let you set different options regarding what is shown in the list and in what order.

The first item in the settings tells the application in what order your items are displayed — by a combination of priority, category (see Categorizing Lists,) due date (see Due Dates and Alarms,) and alphabetically. All options will sort items alphabetically where the other fields are equal.

Sort_options

As mentioned in the previous section, items which have been checked off are not actually removed from the list, but by default they are hidden from view so you only see the items which haven’t been done yet. If you turn on “Show completed and hidden tasks”, then both completed and incompleted items will be shown.

There is also a dedicated menu option just for toggling whether to show completed and hidden tasks. (On Android 3 and newer devices, this option is shown as a check box on the main application title bar.)

Settings

The next three options will display additional fields next to each item. (Items which do not have a due date will show a horizontal dash when “Show due dates” is selected.)

The rest of the settings will be covered in later applicable chapters.

Press the Android back button to close the settings screen.


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